Durga Visarjan 2024 date and time during Navratri

Durga Visarjan 2024: Navratri, also known as Shardiya Navratri, started on October 03. This major Hindu festival symbolizes the nine-night battle between good and evil. Plus, Durga Visarjan is done after nine days of worship of the Goddess Durga during Navratri. In the article, we are sharing the date and auspicious time of Durga Visarjan in Navratri 2024.

Durga Visarjan 2024 date and time

Every year during Sharadiya Navratri, Goddess Durga is immersed in the Dashami Tithi of Shukla Paksha of Ashwin month. Durga Visarjan is done at the appropriate time, either in the Aparahna (Afternoon) or Pratahkala (morning), when Dashmi Tithi prevails.

In most of the years, the Visarjan Muhurat is in the morning time. But, if both Shravan Nakshatra and Dashami Tithi occur together in the afternoon, then the afternoon Muhurt is considered better than the morning Muhurat.

Drugs Visarjan falls this year on Saturday, October 12, 2024.

Durga Visarjan time during Shravana Nakshatra (Via)

• Dashami Tithi Begins – 10:58 AM on Oct 12, 2024
• Dashami Tithi Ends – 09:08 AM on Oct 13, 2024
• Shravana Nakshatra Begins – 05:25 AM on Oct 12, 2024
• Shravana Nakshatra Ends – 04:27 AM on Oct 13, 2024

Durga Visarjan Significance

The Visarjan or immersion of Goddess Durga idols takes place with vibrant processes, which makes the goddess return to her heavenly abode. The celebration ends with the Dussehra, when, amid loud chants and drumbeats, sacred images are carried in the huge processing to local rivers, where they are immersed.

Moreover, the practice is symbolic of the departure of the deity to her home and to her husband, Shiva, in the Himalayas.

Durga Visarjan Puja Vidhi

• Wear clean and new clothes after taking a bath in the morning on the day of the Durga Visarjan
• Start worshiping Goddess Durga with the light of a ghee lamp
• Then offer fruits, rice, and vermillion to Maa Durga
• After performing the aarti of Maa Durga and offering the Prasad
• Take the idol of Goddess Durga for immersion with drums and music
• Immerse Mata Rani is clean river or pond.